India, April 6 -- The Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) has cleared the bioremediation of 18.5 million tonnes of solid waste in the Deonar dumping yard to free the plot for housing the ineligible residents of the Dharavi Redevelopment Project. Free houses will be given in Dharavi only to ground-floor residents who have constructed huts before January 1, 2000, and the rest will be rehabilitated at Deonar, Bhandup, Madh, the Kurla Dairy plot and other places.

The Deonar dumping yard land belongs to the state revenue department, and the state cabinet granted 110 acres of it in October 2024. The government has also handed over 255 acres of salt pan lands at Kanjurmarg and Mulund, 140 acres of land at Madh Island and 21.25...